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BUNGALOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bungalow mean? 

BUNGALOW (noun)
  The noun BUNGALOW has 1 sense:

1. a small house with a single storyplay

  Familiarity information: BUNGALOW used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BUNGALOW (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A small house with a single story

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bungalow; cottage

Hypernyms ("bungalow" is a kind of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)


 Context examples 


He made no advances to us, however, nor would we have dreamed of doing so to him, as it was well known that it was his love of seclusion which caused him to spend the greater part of the intervals between his journeys in a small bungalow buried in the lonely wood of Beauchamp Arriance.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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